Canonical

Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

1499 posts by Canonical

Cloud and server

Why does software-defined everything matter?

by Canonical on 22 February 2017

Does anybody still think of a phone as a way of just making calls? According to Informate Mi less than 10% of the time you spend on a phone is spent giving...

Internet of Things

Screenly announces a follow-up to its popular digital signage solution

by Canonical on 22 February 2017

Screenly’s platform has grown to run over 10,000 screens in less than four years Making it the largest commercial deployment of Raspberry Pi for digital...

Cloud and server

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

by Canonical on 22 February 2017

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach...

Internet of Things

IOTA: IoT revolutionised with a ledger

by Canonical on 20 February 2017

Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only...

Internet of Things

Lime Microsystems and Canonical announce LimeNET crowdfunding

by Canonical on 16 February 2017

Sequel to initial $1million successful crowdfunding campaign follow hugely successful first round of crowdfunding for open-source, 5G and IoT capable SDR with...

Internet of Things

openHAB arrives as a snap!

by Canonical on 9 February 2017

openHAB is a completely open source smart home alternative to Apple Homekit and Samsung SmartThings. Consumers can mix and match hardware and services from...

Phone and tablet

Community Initiative UBports launches Ubuntu Fairphone 2

by Canonical on 8 February 2017

The Ubuntu Community UBports has one mission: to have the open source software Ubuntu on every device, starting with smartphones. UBports’ actions are based...

Internet of Things

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

by Canonical on 7 February 2017

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive...

Internet of Things

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

by Canonical on 30 January 2017

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber...

Cloud and server

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

by Canonical on 23 January 2017

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being...

Cloud and server

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

by Canonical on 21 December 2016

The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at...

Cloud and server

Mounting your home directory in LXD

by Canonical on 8 December 2016

As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount...